Make that nine, if you include the default language, English. Thanks to this really cool plug-in, Translate Widget by young Trevor Creech, visitors to this site can just click the appropriate flag on the side bar and read the whole site in their own language!
You can try it here — just click the flag representing your preferred language. Then just switch back to English by clicking the UK flag. I get a big kick out of reading my site in Spanish.
For WordPress sites, installation is easy. Just download the zipped file, extract, upload it to your site, activate the plug-in, add the widget and it will appear instantly. Make sure you you give this widget high visibility on your blog.
There’s another plug-in, Angsuman’s Translator Plug-in Pro Version 4.0 for WordPress 2.x blogs, but this is not open source (read: free for all to use). The $30 tag price should be worth it as it creates a whole new blog for you in each language, all 13 of them, and should increase your page rank but I read an article that said NOT to buy it as it “killed his server.” It seems that Angsuman fixed the problem eventually but he had already found Trev’s plug-in. Maybe I will try this plug-in eventually but, right now, I am just happy enough to have this blog available in other languages.
How I wish I could do the same for Go Baguio! and all my other websites. But for now, site visitors will just have to use the Google Translator Tools to view the sites in their own language.
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+ed: How come I count 10, not 8+1 flags?
Here they are: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portugese, Spanish + English
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